Origin
Open career →Tennis’s living graph
Bridges Across
Eras
Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.
Shortest path found
Serena Williams
reaches
Ela Nala Milic
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 31 meetings1912January 19, 1998 — August 10, 2020View Serena Williams × Venus Williams →02 BridgeOpen career →Venus Williams
5 meetings14March 17, 2014 — May 17, 2021View Venus Williams × Anna Karolina Schmiedlova →03Open career → 1 meeting10April 12, 2024View Anna Karolina Schmiedlova × Ela Nala Milic →04 DestinationOpen career →Ela Nala Milic
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeFrancesca Schiavone
- DestinationEla Nala Milic
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeRoberta Vinci
- DestinationEla Nala Milic
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeSamantha Stosur
- DestinationEla Nala Milic
- OriginSerena Williams
- BridgeKlara Koukalova
- DestinationEla Nala Milic
How we calculate it
A search from both sides of history.
The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.
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